Soak, Steam, Dream: Reinventing Bathing Culture at Roca Gallery

London Design Festival '16

Roca London Gallery will be showcasing recent bathhouse projects by some of the world’s leading contemporary architects and designers. Soak, Steam, Dream explores a renewed interest in the connection between the physical, meditative and social aspects of bathing. New architectural projects and archival material will be installed in an immersive exhibition designed to look at architecture’s capacity to materialise the rediscovery of ancient water cultures and alternative bathing rituals, reimagining the culture of the bathhouse and factoring in smart water use for the twenty-first century.

Featured projects will include: Germán del Sol (Termas Geométricas), Kengo Kuma & Associates (Kogohi Bathhouse), Terunobu Fujimori (Lamune Onsen), Skene Catling de la Peña (The Dairy House), Something & Son Architects (Barking Bathhouse), and H3T Architekti alongside archival material including research from American critic and bathing aficionado Leonard Koren.

The exhibition has been curated by Jane Withers with exhibition design by Kellenberger-White. A series of events will accompany the exhibition.

http://www.rocalondongallery.com

Station Court
Townmead Road
London SW6 2PY

Termas Geométricas by Germán del Sol

H3T Architekti's Floating Sauna

Kengo Kuma's Kogohi Bathhouse

World's smallest sauna by Marcis Ziemens (Photo Lisa Klappe)

Gothenburg Bathing Culture by Raumlabor

Barking Bathhouse by Something & Son